"Blind faith, sharp knife": Ava-Canoeiro project. Report of literacy activities and systematizing acquisition of write / read alphabetical

Abstract

From September of 2002 to August of 2003 was developped with the indigenouspeople Ava-Canoeiro of Minaçu/GO, a program of school education, dealing specifically with literacy, or better, their first approach to the alphabetic writtenlanguage. During this process, they interacted with the written language in allof their functions, significations, supports, styles, genders etc., in order to beprepared to start a literacy program, initiated in this last visit of the first part ofthe the whole program that should be instaured through their own knowledgenot only of the alphabetic written language, but mainly of their real world. In myview, by being proud of their culture and language, they will able to have moresuccess and more critical awareness, to deal with two differents ways of thinkingand consciously acting as citizens in their country. The history of the contactof the group with the whites and the tipological sociolinguistic situation gavea great support to the literacy program.